This is a two-week literature guide for the book titled Gentle Ben, by Walt Morey. In this book, a boy named Mark buys an Alaskan brown bear. The guide includes:vocabulary activitiesdiscussion questionsreading activities: similes, metaphor, allusion, idiom, the senses: seeing/hearing/ smelling/feeling, facts/opinions, fill in an opinion chart, formulate a conclusion, cliffhanger, prediction, debate, identify the problem, onomatopoeia, suspense, descriptions, adjectivesrelated activitiesmap activ